In this world you only have two types of assets: Money and Time. The easiest way to drive traffic to your site is to buy it. But if you are an Internet marketing beginner you probably don’t have much money to invest in traffic building. In that case, you will need to invest your time.

The following traffic techniques are time consuming, but they are 100% free and will get you a fair amount of targeted traffic. If your site is properly optimized for monetization, you will soon be earning enough money to invest in buying traffic, and save your precious time to build new money making websites.

So here are 11 surefire free traffic techniques:

This tip is so obvious it will not even be counted, but it is often overlooked: submit your site to the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and to as many other search engines as you can.

1. Use this proven Bum Marketing technique, write 5 to 10 articles and submit them to the free article directories. Of course you must include a link to your site in the article itself or in your bio box. The articles should be optimized for a keyword your site is targeting.

2. Find blogs related to your topic and leave useful comments with a backlink to your site. In the same way you could go to answers.yahoo.com, and answer questions related to your site’s topic. Off course put a link to your site in each of your answers. Another thing you should consider is joining the most popular forums that deal with your site’s topic and becoming an active poster. Include a link to your site in your signature.

3. This one can be very powerful. Write a press release about your site and submit it to press release sites such as prweb.com. If you are not familiar with press releases, take some time to do a little research: a press release is not written like an article.

4. If you are happy with a product or service you have used, write an unbiased testimonial and trade it for a backlink to your site.

5. Start a blog on blogger.com and a blog on wordpress.com, link them to your site and submit them to the hundreds of free blog directories. This will get you plenty of quality traffic as long as you keep your blogs updated.

6. Try posting ads with a link to your site on all the free classified ad sites you can find (such as craigslist.com). The best ones will allow you to post a live link. But don’t neglect the other ones. If your ad is well written, people will go out of their way and type your url in their browser. Off course you must post in the appropriate category.

7. An easy way to get extra free traffic is to add a link to your site in your email signature.

8. Start a page on myspace.com and on any other high page rank social bookmarking site you can find. In the same way, go to Squidoo.com, open a few accounts, create a few lenses and link them to your site.

9. Submit a viral video to youtube.com. You don’t really need any video producing know-how as a simple PowerPoint slideshow with some background music will do the job perfectly.

10. Search your main keywords on Google and see if you can exchange reciprocal links with related websites that come up in the top results.

11. You could write an ebook or a short report (say 10 to 20 pages), or find a product with giveaway rights that you can brand with a link to your site. Then submit it to all the free ebook directories you can find online.

This last tip is not free, but is worth the extra buck. Check out the misspellings or variations of your domain name, or those of your competitors. If you find a good available domain, grab it and redirect the traffic to your site.

Now all this looks like a full time job! These techniques work, but you don’t have to use them all at once. Just pick the one you feel the best with and act now. Invest 30 minutes to an hour daily in building your free traffic. Then step to your next favorite technique and within a few weeks you should be earning enough money to afford to buy traffic and concentrate your time and efforts on building your online business.

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Most new Internet Marketers find it VERY DIFFICULT to digest and apply all the advice and tactics that they are bombarded with when starting out. This can be so overwhelming, that many IMers never even get started. The temptation is to keep looking for more information to try and clarify what they have already found.

This can result in a huge proportion of ‘wannabes’ becoming quitters.

If you find yourself in this predicament, we are putting together some SIMPLE & STRAIGHTFORWARD free videos to help you with the basics.

One of the most desirable outcomes an IMer wants is for his/her website to be listed in the major search engines for their main search term, and preferably on the first page of search results for that term. This can result in a lot of free traffic to the site – which is what everybody wants and competes for.

Google’s algorithms for including a web site in their listings is forever changing to reflect their mission to present the user with relevant information. As web masters, IM’ers are using both white hat and black hat methods to boost their listings and page rank. Page rank is Google’s assessment of your sites relevance to the search term used to find your site and how useful it is to the user.

Black hat methods are fast becoming highly detrimental to use as Google’s algorithms improve they will remove listings using these methods. So Stay Away From Black Hat Methods supposedly able to increase your traffic and page rank quickly. Your site will be penalized!

As an new web master, your goal is to make your site as search engine friendly and as relevant to your search keywords as possible. Regardless of your product or service, if you want to achieve a high ranking and appear in the first 1-20 listings for search terms, there are some very important steps that must be implemented before you submit your site to Google or any other search engine. You also need to practice patience. Part of the search engine algorithms will be the age of your site. The newer it is, the less likely it is your site will rise to a very high position. Don’t be disheartened by this. Once your site is in the indices of the search engines, you can continue to improve on content and relevence which brings your rankings up gradually every time they re-visit and re-index.

Due to the sheer number of new web sites being created on a daily basis by internet marketers and others, it will take time to get your site listed, ranked and into the search results. Remember your are competing for the best results, it doesn’t happen by itself. It takes know-how and work. Selling on line is a business, not a get rich quick scheme, and if you are to succeed, you must take it seriously and treat it like a long term business.

There are 16 Videos in this series. Here is the first one – we will add one per day for the next 2 weeks so stayed tuned.

View 1st Video:

An Introduction to “On Page” Search Engine Optimization

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How And Why To Move Your JavaScript To An External File

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How Your File Size Can Effect Your Search Engine Efforts